Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
16 March 1925
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/636
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Sotheby's. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Valerius Maximus 8vo. Joannes Knobloch. Strassburg, 1524 Brown calf. One panel. Four bands. I. Panel. The centre is filled with alternating cusps, each ending with an acorn anda quatrefoil. (Six complete and two halves). Round sprays of foliage. At the top is a wyvern and at the bottom an owl, each between tufts of leaves. In each corner is a conventional artichoke. This is a very finely engraved stamp, probably French. holes. One joint cracked. In a padded case. | Vives (Joannes Ludovicus) 8vo. [Brugis, 1531] Brown calf. Three bands. The side contains an interior panel formed by a broad frame built up by continuous rectangular dies giving the appearance of a roll. The panel contains four diamond shaped stamps of intertwined rope work and the spaces between are filled with a leaf. The outer corners of the panel frame end ina formal floral tool. ** [Back defective. Wants title. | Viola animae 16mo. Martinus Caesar. Antwerp, 1533 Black calf. Two panels. Three bands. I. Panel. Image of Pity. In the centre is a half-length figure of Our Lord, the lower part of the body being concealed by clouds. In the right arm is held the bundle of twigs, in the left the scourge. The head is encircled by a cruciferous nimbus and on either side are the words ‘‘ecce homo.” The background is sprinkled with stars. Above is an elaborate crocketed hexagonal canopy. The border is composed of a diaper of lozenges formed by double lines with a quatrefoil in each. At each corner is a larger quatrefoil. into two halves; each containing a spiral branch of vine with leaves and grapes, in the curves of each are a dog, an eagle and a wyvern flowers and grapes, interrupted at each corner by a quatrefoil. Inthe “ ° curves at top and bottom are a wyvern between two eagles. On the | right are an eagle, a wyvern, an eagle and a wyvern ; on the left a wyvern, an eagle, an eagle and a wyvern. In the library of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, is another copy of this book in a similar binding. ** [Good impressions of the panels. Binding loose. In a padded case: the upper panel, from a binding in Stonyhurst College Library, was reproduced in the Burlington Fine Arts Club Catalogue of Bindings, 1891, pl. IX. | Weale, p. 185, no. 354. 183 Vivaldus (J. O.) Aureum opus de veritate 8vo. De Marnef. Paris, 1522 Black calf. Two panels.. Three bands. . ;
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